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I agree with trivializing the prospect, but for me personally it's less about the nature of the work or the city, but the ludicrous instability that a company would hope you don't think about. It's fine if where you're coming from is a desolate market and you're wanting to seriously improve either your income or location for personal reasons, that's a sensible risk. But doing it for a more lateral move, or for marginal gains, I'd be asking myself how committed this employer is to having me; the answer is usually zero. So I go and get my expensive apartment in a scarce market and start working away on whatever inane problem company x is paying me for, and 2 months in it turns out, "oops, we overhired and have to refocus our energy on digitizing, solutioning, and don't forget problemization and alignment".

One case where this would be worthwhile though would be one where you wanted to move there anyway, and the company is arbitrary



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